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Billingham Skills Academy. It is a brick and glass single-storey building. A tree is growing at the front next to a path.

Academy closure a 'major blow to young people'

Billingham's Skills Academy is set to see its courses move to Thornaby from September.

Billingham Skills Academy. It is a brick and glass single-storey building. A tree is growing at the front next to a path.

Shock as academy announces closure

Billingham's Skills Academy will see its courses move to a venue in Thornaby from September.

Three police officers dressed in black are walking towards the camera. A police van is parked in the foreground with a police car in the background.

Children find suspected bullets buried in grass

Officers have removed the suspected bullets and taken them away for forensic testing.

Back of head of a boy at a table looking at a notebook. He is holding a pencil while sitting in a classroom. Other pupils sitting in the desks in front of the boy are out of focus.

Benefit cap punishing poor children, study says

Researches claim child poverty rates are "directly and strongly correlated" to benefit caps.

A dales view with a large blue sign that reads 'Dibble's Bridge Long, steep descent. Cyclists test brakes & drive carefully'.

'They laid the bodies out in our garden' - 50 years since Dibbles Bridge crash

On 27 May 1975, 45 women were on a day trip in the Yorkshire Dales when their coach crashed.

Mugshot of Cooper. He has a blading head of dark hair, dark goatee and moustache with black glasses

Man killed friend with drunken push on night out

Thomas Tierney, 54, died in hospital days after hitting his head on the pavement following a push.

A general view of the former police station in Stockton.

Empty police station to be sold for redevelopment

Cleveland Police's former station on Millbank Lane in Thornaby has lain empty for many years.

Members of the Thornaby FC women's team, seated and standing and wearing full kit.

Reinstated women's football team wins league

Thornaby FC Women are entering the highest league they have ever played in after their Sunday win.

Woodford Walk. The light-coloured brick houses stand on the left and right of the road. Cars are parked along it. A sign displaying the name of the street has been hung on a tall wooden garden fence.

Attempted murder arrest after man stabbed

The 27-year-old is in a stable condition at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.